Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed
This paper by Chris Sturgis and Kathrine Casey (iNACOL2018) offers a vision and definition of educational equity, then explains how competency-based education differs from the traditional system. The authors introduce an equity framework for personalized, competency-based education and include a discussion of each principle, examples of policies and practices that will help to create an equitable environment, and recommendations for future action.
Developing Assessments for the Next Generation Science Standards
This article describes how the NGSS can be used to create a more innovative science assessment system.
Developing Balanced Assessment Systems and the Assessment Manifesto
This paper describes characteristics of ideal classroom and other assessments in a balanced assessment system.
Developing High Quality Student Assessments
The purpose of this document (by Ed Roeber) is to present strategies that educators can use to create common types of educational assessments. Although this guide will present a number of ideas about assessment – those that are effective and those that are not – the best assessments are the result of collaboration among assessment developers and usually consists of an iterative process of development, refinement, tryouts, and further refinement. Hence, the ideas presented here are simply the beginning of a much larger process for creating high quality assessments.
Developing Michigan Into a Top 10 Education Performing State Over the Next Ten Years
This paper describes MAC’s recommendations for the role of assessment to move Michigan into a Top 10 education performing state.
Disciplinary literacy and student-centered instruction and assessment in secondary English language arts
This Learning Point considers the intersection between the Essential Instructional Practices for Disciplinary Literacy in Secondary ELA 1, or Literacy Essentials, and MAC’s Components of Equitable Assessment to offer key considerations for student-centered instruction and assessment of disciplinary literacy in secondary ELA.
Early Literacy Assessment Systems that Support Learning
This guide explains the necessary components and attributes of an assessment system designed to support the development of literacy.
Early Literacy Systems that Support Learning Executive Summary
Educator Effectiveness Resource
Educator Evaluation -Models, Parameters, Issues and Implementation
This paper describes two methods for educator evaluation.
Effective Instructional Leadership Requires Assessment Leadership
This article describes what principals need to know about assessment and how they can support the teachers in their buildings.
Embedding Performance Assessment in Instruction
The recorded presentation with Ed Roeber, Assessment Director, MAC, and accompanying article Re-balancing Assessment by Hoffman, Goodwin and Kahl set the stage to create a set of prioritized standards and develop performance assessments to embed in ongoing instruction and highlight the benefits of collaboratively scoring student work